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Aggie and her killer

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That's the title of a must-read commentary by Ronnie Dugger, the founding editor of the Texas Observer, in the Observer's current issue.  LINK    Texas, with one-thirteenth of the country?s people, has   killed 37 percent of the convicted murderers ?executed? in the United   States since 1976. As Adam Liptak?s December 26 report in The New   York Times made clear, this is not because Texans on juries bring in more   death sentences than their fellow Americans?they do not?but because   the state?s district attorneys, judges, and other politicians are more   aggressive in favor of killing convicted killers. The recent use of DNA testing   has cleared people we were getting ready to kill, giving anyone with a conscience   pause as we realize that the states have probably been killing, quite irreversibly,   some innocent people...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).